John Trotter at Mumm Napa on Saturday, March 6th
© John Trotter
The Ansel Adams Gallery and Blue Earth are proud to host an inspiring lecture series and photo exhibit featuring our dramatically changing planet titled “Changing Earth: Photographer’s Call to Action” at Mumm Napa Fine Art Photography Gallery through March 13, 2010.
The fourth in our Mumm Napa lecture series will feature “The Future of the Colorado River and the American Southwest,” a presentation by Blue Earth project photographer John Trotter on Saturday, March 6th 2010, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
“The Colorado’s modern notoriety… stems not from its wild rapids and plunging canyons but from the fact that it is the most legislated, most debated, and most litigated river in the entire world.” Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
“What will the American Southwest look like when the great reservoirs storing Colorado River water are emptied by the combined effects of drought and overuse, a future, which now appears inevitable?,” asks John Trotter. “How dependent have we become on a model of endless growth that itself depends on a finite amount of water? In this presentation, we’ll view photos from the river’s headwaters to its desiccated delta for a glimpse of how we have reached this point.”
A native of Missouri, John Trotter worked as a newspaper photojournalist for fourteen years, on stories large and small, local and international. He photographed events ranging from local elections to national political conventions and covered United States military interventions in Panama, Somalia and Haiti. Some of his work from Somalia was part of a United Nations exhibition on that country’s massive famine in 1992. On March 24, 1997, while on assignment in Sacramento, California for The Sacramento Bee, he was nearly beaten to death by a half-dozen young men. During his long recovery from that attack he photographed Sierra Gates, a brain injury rehabilitation residence, where he himself had lived after his release from the hospital. Those photographs have been published and exhibited in Europe and the United States and a book of them is forthcoming. On the fourth anniversary of his attack, Trotter took the first pictures for his project on the enormous pressure of human development on the Colorado River, which is ongoing. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York, the Oakland of Manhattan, since 2000.
Mumm Napa Winery is located at 8445 Silverado Trail, Rutherford, CA 94573. For directions call (707) 967-7700. Visitor center and fine art photography gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Series lectures are free and open to the public, but please RSVP at (707) 967-7740 to guarantee seating.
We would like to thank SanDisk for sponsoring the lecture series and our friends at PhotoAlliance for generously helping to publicize the lectures.